handbreak mp-4 won’t play in QT player

[Craig Seeman]

Test in the other two. That would confirm that the issue is QT 10.3 and not the file.

[Craig Alan]

But it opens up other mp4s encoded in the same way. Unless the problem is the size of the mp4.

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[Craig Seeman]

Regardless. please test in the other players.
If you want help follow my instructions.

[Craig Alan]

Will do. Will test it tomorrow.

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[Craig Seeman]

QT7 uses Quicktime. QT 10.3 uses CoreMedia. VLC has it’s own.
This can determine if it’s the source/encode at issue vs the ability of certain players under certain circumstances.

[Craig Alan]

I tried QT 7.6.3 and the error message read this is not a QT file even though the icon of the file is the QT symbol.

I tried it in VLC 2.1.4. It would open the shorter one that also opens in QT but not the ones that QT would not open.

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[Craig Seeman]

So if all three player (VLC, QT7, QT 10.3) have issues then there would be an issue with the encode it seems.

In HandBrake main window, you’ll see a checkbox that says “Large file size.” Enable that and try doing the encode again.

[Craig Alan]

That makes sense. Small ranges of the same timeline encoded in handbreak just fine.

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[Craig Alan]

Yes. That did the trick. I checked the “Large file size.” Set the encode to slow and ended with a 5+gig file that is better than a FCP X share.

Thanks, Craig.

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[Craig Seeman]

Good to hear. I wonder what the threshold for “Large File Size” is given that “large” by itself, is subjective.
I wonder what it might be changing.